UPDATE 1-Cricket-Pakistan challenges ICC over loss of World Cup
* PCB launches legal challenge to loss of World Cup games
* ICC did not consult on decision to move matches, PCB says
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KARACHI, May 9 (Reuters) - Pakistan's cricket authorities have mounted a legal challenge to the International Cricket Council's (ICC) decision to strip the country of the right to host 2011 World Cup matches.
"The ICC didn't consult us before taking this decision. We have sent them a legal notice," Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ejaz Butt told a news conference in Lahore on Saturday.
"We don't think the ICC decision is sound on legal grounds. If they say the security situation in Pakistan prompted this decision then the security situation in India and Sri Lanka is also not good," Butt said.
He said the board would try to get a restraining order against the ICC, who announced last month that they were moving the matches because of the "uncertain security situation" in Pakistan.
The matches have been redistributed among the other three host nations, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
In a statement, the PCB said: "We are most concerned about the manner in which the ICC took this decision. Continued...
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